Re: CXS page (fy: (Mis)Naming a Language)

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 07:42:11AM +0200, Steg Belsky wrote:
> Then how do you tell the webpage that you want a certain type of font,
> or whatever?
Well, these days you do that with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  For
maximum portability you should stick to *type* of font, as in
typewriter, serifed, or sans-serif, rather than *name* of font, like
Courier, Times New Roman, or Arial/Helvetica.    But you can specify
font names as well, and one of the nice things about CSS is that you can
have different stylesheets for the same page on different platforms.  So
without having to change the HTML at all,  so you can basically say "On
Windows, use Arial.   On a Mac, use Helvetica.  On Unix, use whatever
you like as long as it has no serifs."

In general, though, HTML is better at conveying information than
building pretty documents - especially if, as an author, you're quite
picky about what constitutes "pretty".  :) For fine control over the
appearance of the finished page you might be better off making a PDF
instead.

-Marcos